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Corn aka Maize
Episode 1453
The biggest agricultural crop in the world today, by total weight, is corn.
Also known as maize, corn is a crop of the New World. The ancients in Chi…
1 year, 10 months ago
Gregor MacGregror and the Biggest Scam in History
Episode 1452
One of the most audacious scams in history took place in the early 19th century in Britain.
A man sold thousands of people a dream of land in the New…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Discovery and Burial of the Remains of Richard III (Encore)
Episode 1451
The death of a British monarch is a very big event. Thousands of people may take part in the funeral and procession, with millions more lining up to …
1 year, 10 months ago
Air Conditioning
Episode 1450
One of the biggest problems that humanity has faced for thousands of years is heat.
Excessive heat made it difficult to work in the middle of the day…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Formation of the United Nations
Episode 1449
In the midst of the Second World War, the Allied powers began planning ahead for what the post-war world was going to look like.
The Legion of Nation…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Marginal Revolution (Encore)
Episode 1448
In most academic disciplines, there is often a single idea or discovery which makes everything fall into place.
All of the things which didn’t make s…
1 year, 10 months ago
The French Foreign Legion
Episode 1447
A popular topic of films has been the French Foreign Legion.
The French Foreign Legion was supposed to be an organization where someone could get a n…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Domestication of Cats (Encore)
Episode 1449
Dogs and cats are both domesticated, four-legged, fur-bearing mammals.
Beyond that, they really don’t have much in common. One of the things that the…
1 year, 10 months ago
The History of Skyscrapers
Episode 1447
If you were to pick a single visible icon to represent the 20th century, it would probably be the skyscraper.
Skyscrapers didn’t really even exist be…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Moon
Episode 1444
About 384,400 km or 238,900 miles above the surface of the Earth is our planet's only natural satellite, The Moon.
Every culture and civilization on …
1 year, 10 months ago